Well, I hope they retry the son-of-a-bitch.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Shades of Kent State at UT Austin
Similar outrageous fascistic action is happening at other universities.
At Columbia University in New York, faculty staged a walkout in protest on behalf of their students who were removed from campus grounds, and classes were canceled in favor of online study.
Thursday in Trump trials
I'm actually surprised SCOTUS didn't delay even longer because of this.It will be a historic and surreal split screen: a former president, current presidential candidate and four-time criminal defendant whose lawyers will be fighting two very different sets of felony charges in two courthouses simultaneously.
Politico
[Trump] asked his judge in New York, Justice Juan Merchan, to grant him permission to attend Thursday’s arguments. Merchan declined, noting that Trump’s presence in Washington is optional while his presence at the hush money trial is mandatory.
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Trump is demanding that the Supreme Court declare him “immune” from special counsel Jack Smith’s charges stemming from his attempt to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.
I think they'll do the latter.The court delivered him a unanimous victory in March when it stopped state-level efforts to remove him from the 2024 ballot over his role in stoking the Jan. 6 insurrection. (Trump passed up his chance to attend those arguments in February.) And at earlier stages of the immunity dispute, the court declined Smith’s effort to expedite the case. The high court’s handling of the issue has, in effect, aided Trump’s strategy of trying to delay all of his criminal cases until after the 2024 election.
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Some Trump critics are publicly urging the court to rule by May 20, knowing that if the justices prolong a decision until late June or issue a ruling that requires lower courts to do additional legwork, they could effectively doom Smith’s plan to bring Trump to trial in 2024.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
So despicable
They're bragging about it. Somebody - everybody - should rub this in those SCOTUS justice faces. ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president’s lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity. Bringing the case before the court — after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., shut down their arguments on executive power — was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump’s criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall. The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated.
“We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now.
Trump’s lawyers and other confidants had widely expected — and had told the former president as much — that the court maneuver would delay the election subversion trial, but perhaps only to around the summer. For months, Trump attorneys were actively preparing themselves and their client to face a trial, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the violent Jan. 6 assault at the U.S. Capitol, right around the time of the Republican Party’s nominating convention, the sources add.
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But the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, which Trump built as president, came through for him in a way that many Trump advisers didn’t believe was probable. When news broke in late February that the court would take up Trump’s claims of vast immunity, Trumpland was so elated that a lawyer close to Trump told Rolling Stone they were “literally popping champagne.”
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For Trump’s 2024 campaign and his top attorneys, the battle ended there and has been over for two months now.
Rolling Stone
UPDATE 04/25/2024:
So, yes. They're just helping him out by delaying the trial.
They won't.
Secret arms shipment
The provision of the long-range version of the ATACMS ends a lengthy drama in which Ukraine clamored for years to receive the weapon, driving a wedge between Washington and Kyiv. The U.S. quietly sent the medium-range version of the missile in October, but Ukraine continued to press for a weapon that would allow it to strike farther behind Russia’s lines.
Ukrainian forces have used the long-range missiles twice, first against a Russian military base in Crimea and more recently against Russian forces east of Berdyansk near the Sea of Azov, the senior administration official said.
The U.S. on Wednesday announced a new $1 billion package of weapons that will quickly be transferred to Ukraine now that Biden has signed off on the long-delayed foreign aid bill that passed the Senate this week.
Politico
Wheels of justice grinding slowly but surely
So, indict the mfer.An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump campaign operative Mike Roman.
The indictment, which includes felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery, also describes Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Politico
“Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” the 58-page indictment reads.
The names of seven of the defendants, including Meadows, Giuliani and Roman, are redacted, but the document makes clear who they are by describing their roles. Ken Chesebro, an attorney who helped devise Trump’s post-election strategy, is described as “unindicted coconspirator 4.
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, has been helming the aggressive investigation. Though she initially appeared to be focused primarily on the false electors, in recent months she issued a wave of subpoenas to figures in Trump’s national orbit.
Mayes is the fifth prosecutor to bring criminal charges over the sprawling, multi-state bid by Trump and his allies to upend the 2020 results. Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with federal crimes for those efforts. Prosecutors in Georgia have charged Trump and many of his allies for their bid to overturn the results in that state, including the fake electors plot. Prosecutors in Michigan and Nevada have also charged Republicans who posed as fake electors in those states.
UPDATE 04/25/2024:
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